Monday, August 21, 2006

Iyer Education comes up with another breakthrough of a research work. The research conducted by someone who doesn't want to be named and who doesn't seek any form of publicity has come up with observations that a lot of nouns in English (Proper Nouns) have their roots in India. Tough to believe… Go ahead and check out the list of words that are waiting to unfold their Indian Origins. So here they go…

Elizabeth Hurley : "Hurley", to begin with, has been picked up from Marathi. "Hurley" in Marathi means "She Lost". Now we know that her name makes perfect sense because she lost in a deal by deciding to marry Arun Nayyar, when some Arun Iyer was more eligible than the former. (We think it's the Brit accent that made Iyer sound like Nayyar and she ended up with the wrong guy )

Van Damme : Van Damme has its root in Tamil. Van Damme in Tamil means "Don't Want" (irrespective of the gender). So when you actually get to say his complete name Jean-Claude Van Damme , it would have meant, "Don't want Jean-Claude". Sir, are you reading this. Now do you know why you don't have too much of a fan following in Tamil Nadu. Care to see some numerologist and change your name? Aah leave it, south Indian or not, nobody watches your movies yaar!!!

Chris Tucker : This guy has his roots in Hindi. And if you have forgotten, let us remind you that Hindi is our national language.In Hindi, Tucker means to fight (as in Mujhse Tucker mat le ). So other than Rush Hour (I & 2) nobody wants to take too much of a Tucker by risking and watching his movies.

Angelina Jolie : This hot lady, on the other hand comes from the soothing backwaters of Kerala. If haven't still got it "Jolie" in mallu means "Work/Business". So it was strictly her business to have " Africa" as one of the options for the name of her kid and not opt other soothing names like "Eranakulam" or "Thiruvananthapuram" from the roots of her name. (Eventually she called her Shiloh). Who knows, she could call the next one " Palakkad" or "Kozhikode". We just have to wait and watch…

Al Pacino : This man on the other hand belongs to the state of Gujarat. "Pacino", in gujju means, "Belonging to later". And just this explanation gives us the idea of why all the performances of this wonderful actor were always ahead of his times. It were all to be enjoyed later… forever…

And finally… yes we have come to the end(party time no?)… we give you the only common noun (for this post) that has its roots in India…

Encyclopedia : This particular word is picked up from a south Indian famous line that a lot of rickshaw pullers in Madras use very commonly. It's "Yenn Cyclea Pidi Ayya". The above means " Please hold my cycle". Now we don't know why these Englishmen used this cycle to describe a book full of knowledge. Strange are these people we say.

25 comments:

LOL. Brilliant! but maybe you had a lucky escape with the hurley chick. Have you seen Nair's face off late? besides, i thought you you prefer a nice iyer ponnu like Uma (Thurman- an obvious conversion from thiru-amman)

Heh heh. Very funnily clever. Or is it cleverly funny? But funnier is the fact that some of the real etymologies are even more bizarre. I vaguely recally having read something about Mulligatawny soup's Indian origins... unfortunately I can't remember what it was :P

@sensorcaine, i had the (mis)fortune to see both arun and liz at nariman point... and let me say this... arun looks a thousand times better as compared to her... and this post will just give her a lil more publicity...

and no iyer chicks for me... i am planning to marry someone from angelina's naadu ;)

@witnwisdumb, i think it is marathi and has got to do with women(mulgi) or something...

@scribz, dont bring daroo or words like daroo... i am off all of them... (atleast for the next 30 seconds)